Early Modern Europe

Question 1

What is the period of social history from 1650-1775 called?

Answer 1

the Ancien Regime (French)

Question 2

What is aristocratic life like in the Ancien Regime?

Answer 2

full control, rich from taxes and land rent, exempt from taille and corvee, and had right to bear arms

Question 3

French taille and corvee?

Answer 3

Taille is land tax

Corvee is forced labor on public works and, for renters, unpaid labor to landowners

Question 4

What is peasant life like in the Ancien Regime?

Answer 4

Malnourished despite New World and other agricultural advances
poor and highly inequal
married in mid 20s
suffered since medicine wasn’t developed

Question 5

What did doctors do at this time?

Answer 5

Basically nothing. Told you what the problem was, but couldn’t cure it

Question 6

What caused particular problems in France for peasants?

Answer 6

They had such low incomes that they had to rent land at high prices. Also had to work a corvee then

Question 7

Peasants in Russia

Answer 7

harshest lives. Peter/Catherine the Great gave nobles total control over serfs. Currency was often “souls”

Question 8

What is different in the west than the east in regard to peasant control?

Answer 8

Russia had serfs, but often English and French peasants were free (although still renting because they were broke)